Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Papers: Paper trunk, WRMK, fancy pants, Glitz, Crate paper
Look at all my ribbons! Can't recall all the names/brands - some I bought in the US during my trip in January.
7Gypsie photo turns, Purple Pumpkin button, thickers!!!! Green thickers have been smooched. I think I smooch everything right now!

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Well I haven't got off the bus yet (ie. I have met all the challenges) and I'm having a lovely time on this Red Earth road trip!

Each week the girls have put together some great information about a town in Australia- I'm even enjoying reading about places I've never been (i know I'm a nerd). And the challenges are fun and the RED EARTH team are putting together GREAT example pages each week.

Last week we were in Sydney...
We had to create a family inspired layout, using blue (like the sydney harbour) and NO patterned paper. Susanne used a map (looked great) and that inspired me to create this layout....

Used my new Maya road zipper ribbon, Prima crotchet flower, Purple Pumpkin Owl button, Jillibean Soup corugated flowers, the apple fabric I have no idea where I got that! All backed with trusty KRAFT and misting. See the Australia Zoo Map I used! ha! No Patterned paper!

Then a celebration card, again using blue...

Well, not really sure about the card. I keep doing simple ones and keep thinking I should be adding layers and layers and stamping and fancy... definitely need some lessons to convert my scrapping style down in size to fit a card!

Head over to Red Earth and jump on our road trip! You can get on and off any time!
This week we are off to Tennant Creek and i can't wait to use those earth tones on a layout!

Now i threw this layout together based on the sketch I designed for Scrapbooks etc. (find us on Facebook "Scrapbooks ETC - Brisbane) this fortnight - This is the sketch rotated- such an easy way to come up with a new page easily!

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Had fun last night travelling to Cowra (figuratively of course), for the Red Earth road trip. Challenges to complete for the next 12 weeks and lots of fun on the way around Australia! Great idea and the Red Earth forum is a really fun place to stop by at.

This week in Cowra we had to create a layout using the word "Peace" (like their Peace Bell)... And include the special BONUS item that came in the Road Trip kit! Each week we have to guess the item and include it on the layout - Can't tell you what it is though. Here's my layout:

The card challenge (is there going to be a card challenge every week!!??? Not sure I can do that!)- anyway we had to use origami (in recognition of the Japanese influences in Cowra)... I tried to fold a paper flower following a website and it kinda worked out! here it is...

About Me

I am a wife of David and Mum of three girls, Abby, 14; Olivia, 12 and Jessie,10. I am a Speech Pathologist, currently working 3 days a week in my own business from home. 2 days a week I am an inclusive technology consultant, doing much work with iPads. All my spare time, even if it is late at night, is spent scrapbooking!!!